@CynAq@actuallyautistic I really doubt it - the public understanding of autism was nonexistent in the 1960s and quite different in the 1980s. I strongly suspect any attempt to have been inclusive of autism in either TOS or TNG would have involved a character with significantly greater difficulties in communication.
I think we often connect to characters that reflect us even though they were written just to be stubborn, emotionless, "difficult", annoyingly literal, etc.